Focused meetings in small groups between projects (outcome focused + gender)
Link other N’s to national platform + local + national
Link with other N’s capacity building (create coherence)
Communicate products, outputs, lessons better among key partners
Overall develop……. M & E system (a national platform) – be realistic
Innovation research NBDC learning push institutional histories
Link to N5 and other basins
Needs:
Making gender dimension more explicit
Continuous supply of information from each Nile project in a coordinated manner
Gifts:
Creation of forums for scale out of interventions + interaction
Policy and national perspective
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Nile 4
Core work:
Data components
Combination of analysis + products (high level)
Demonstration + dissemination – moving foreword
Solutions to data gaps
Populating models
Getting tools up and running/stable
Needs:
Support to integrate products into policy at local/national levels
Support to Kinde on social/LLH integration to link N2 + N4
Input to scenario development (N2 + N3+ N5)
Gifts:
1. Data to N2 – unanticipated field work
2. Crop pu + Lu
3. Hydro
4. Sediment
Nile 3
Core work:
Targeting methodology
Practice and strategy maps
Domains
Needs:
Better understanding of how N5/N2 engages with different target audiences
Gifts:
Presentations, policy messages, for different forums
Databases, training manuals, tool and maps
Nile 2:
Core work:
Development of use of 3 local IPs to identify current and future issues +raise awareness (2 way) and discuss + apply solutions
Provision of primary data – governance, livelihoods, bio physical
Capacity building: research training, MSC, IP facilitation, participatory planning, PV, catchment coordinator and observers
Needs:
A new strategy based on the discussions from these 2 days
Greater use of IP to share and disseminate information to communities + stakeholders requires basic information from N3 + N4
Increase dialogue with N5 on how IP + local learning feeds into regional + national
Information on happy strategies + adoption for use in IPs and to feed in learning from N2 – collaboration
Establish protocols for information + data sharing
Further discussion with N3, N4 and N5 on how to include socio-economic + governance data
Development of exit strategy for long term sustainability (IPs, interventions, capacities)
Gifts:
Robust + evidence based identification of issues with focus on participating + collaboration (i.e. crowded research process + opportunity to test theory)
IP process learning, knowledge sharing, guidelines etc.
Data (livelihoods, institutional, hydro-meteorological) for use in IPs + models
Nile 5
Core WorkNeeds:
Gifts:
Nile 4
Core work:Needs:
Gifts:
1. Data to N2 – unanticipated field work
2. Crop pu + Lu
3. Hydro
4. Sediment
Nile 3
Core work:Needs:
Gifts:
Nile 2:
Core work:Needs:
Gifts: